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Devon / Re: William Furneaux baptised 1579, Paignton: Son of Henry Furneaux
« on: Monday 31 October 22 07:22 GMT (UK)  »
I have an Elizabeth Furneaux, daughter of Samuel Furneaux and Elizabeth Honniwell, who was baptised in Buckfastleigh 23 Dec 1695.  However, I have her married to Philip Michelmore 31 Mar 1719 in Buckfastleigh.  I may be wrong, and there are a few Elizabeth F*s to choose from!

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Devon / Re: Early birth records Devon
« on: Sunday 19 June 22 06:11 BST (UK)  »
FinMyPast has early Plymouth parish registers but you may want to look further afield.  I have a Marine (just a bit later than this) born in Plymouth and joined the Marines there, married in Chatham in 1830, and has children born in Chatham, Woolwich, Canada and Barbados.  You may find this link helpful

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-armed-forces/

FindMyPast also has the GRO Regimental Birth Indices Supplement (1761 to 1924)

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Devon / Re: Can anyone find anything about Sarah Mortimore, marrying Plymouth, 1789
« on: Sunday 06 March 22 07:06 GMT (UK)  »
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It's hundreds of miles from Plymouth to London - especially on the roads in 1763!
Not a journey you would be undertaking lightly.

It would be far more likely that they would travel by sea, especially from a place like Plymouth with almost as many boats/ships as people!

Have you considered that Sarah may also have been widowed?  You suggest she may have been born as early as 1755, and it would be unusual for a woman of 34 to be making a first marriage.  So you really could be looking for a needle in a haystack, a Sarah who married a Mortimore and was subsequently widowed, almost anywhere in the country.  Devon and London would seem to be the first places to look.


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Devon / Re: William STANBURY born 4 Oct 1796 Hatherleigh, Devon.
« on: Friday 21 January 22 07:50 GMT (UK)  »
AAAAGGGHH! These Stanburys!  You're more than likely right about the other couple.  I hadn't really come across them, and knowing the Plymouth connection and the records saying 'Bickleigh, Plymouth' I jumped on them.  Yes, I think the parents did follow the children to Plymouth.  Why are they so hard to find?!

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Devon / Re: William STANBURY born 4 Oct 1796 Hatherleigh, Devon.
« on: Thursday 20 January 22 06:27 GMT (UK)  »
Still no clue as to the identity of Peter Stanbury, I had another try yesterday.  I believe Peter died 1816 in Bickleigh, Plymouth, aged 56 which would mean he was more or less the same age as Ann.  "Ann Stanbury wife of Peter Stanbury" was buried in Bickleigh in 1804.

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Devon / Re: William STANBURY born 4 Oct 1796 Hatherleigh, Devon.
« on: Tuesday 18 January 22 06:32 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry Cody, got distracted by the 1921 census.  Out of sight, out of mind!  I'll get back to you!

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Devon / Re: William STANBURY born 4 Oct 1796 Hatherleigh, Devon.
« on: Saturday 01 January 22 18:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Cody, you and I have corresponded before about our ancestors and relations.  I'm not sure why you think Elizabeth married a Smith?  FamilySearch has images of the Marriage Bond and Marriage Licence, both dated 26 November 1810.  Both describe her as Elizabeth Stanbury, an unmarried woman above the age of twentyone.  Richard was a seaman on HM Ship Rhin.  They don't seem to have a record of the actual marriage though, and I cant find it anywhere else.

Happy New Year, and happy hunting!

(edited to add, I have now found the transcription of the marriage on FindMyPast, which does indeed show Elizabeth as SMITH.  In the absence of the actual image, I am going to take that as a mistake.)

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Devon / Re: William Furneaux baptised 1579, Paignton: Son of Henry Furneaux
« on: Wednesday 22 April 20 16:42 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your response.  Now it gets interesting!  In my tree, copied as I say from the Furneaux family website, Henry and Cicely only have two sons, William 1579 and Henry 1584/5.  William married Joane Chadder and had Henry, Christopher, William, Thomas, John and Peter.  So So no son John; no James and Robert sons of William.  They are however born later than the last son I had, Peter, so it is possible but why are the older six sons not mentioned in the will?   

Henry married Dorothy Necke; they had Margery, William, Henry, Dorothy and Susan.  Dorothy sen. died in 1619 a month after the birth of Susan.  In 1623 Henry remarried Hellery Finch and they had another son called Henry.

I have previously confirmed the baptisms and burials in the Parish Registers on FindMyPast, but they are not indexed, just browseable images so I have not yet gone on to check for deaths or marriages of the children.  Maybe that will shed some light, but at the moment we are no closer to deciding which Henry is which!   

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Devon / Re: William Furneaux baptised 1579, Paignton: Son of Henry Furneaux
« on: Wednesday 22 April 20 11:07 BST (UK)  »
I'm going to jump in here and announce that William Furneis (1579 Paignton) and his wife Joane Chadder are also my great x10 grandparents! My most recent Furneaux ancestor is Caroline Furneaux (great x3 grandmother) daughter of Christopher Furneaux and Mary Clement, bapt. 1820 in Buckfastleigh, married William Waycott 1843 and died 1863.

I haven't looked at that branch of my tree for a while, but much of my information came from an extensive tree, possibly on the old Rootsweb.  www.furneaux-family.com no longer exists, though it may survive on the Wayback Machine.  That gave William's parents as Henry Furneys, buried in Paignton 25 July 1626 and his wife Cicely, buried in Paignton 25 Jul 1614.  The burial records are on FindMyPast, and Cicely is described as w(ife) of Henry Ffurneis Sen.  I haven't yet found a marriage for Henry and Cicely, but I've got lots of free time now to hunt for it.  Looking forward to more correspondence on this family, there must be a lot of descendants around!

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